1227Re: [jasspa] CUA support - update

> Would standardizing the GUI key bindings be sufficient ?
> Should we consider a move to a native GUI for dialog boxes etc. ?
> a) Is all of this effort worth it ?

No.

> b) Would MicroEmacs become "BloatedMicroEmacs" or "MegaEmacs" ?

Yes. There are lots of Emacs variations out there. Keep MicroEmacs good at
what it is good at, being small, fast, and enduring.

> c) Would it be more frustrating to use ?

Probably. I'm usually using it when there is no GUI running yet.

> d) Would it make it more usable ?
>
> I guess the real basic questions I should be asking are:-
>
> Why do you use MicroEmacs ?
> What do you want as a user from MicroEmacs ?

I use NanoEmacs to bring up new systems, like Gentoo where they stick you
with that sucky 'nano' editor in the base boot system. *SMALL* and easy to
build is what it is all about at this point. Eventually as the system gets
father into the build process I bring up full MicroEmacs then the full
FSF/GNU Emacs.

NanoEmacs is small enough to stick in a RAM disk and not notice then
you end up with instant load times.

> d) Would it make it more usable ?

They one thing I would like to see is that in NE/ME that the key bindings that
are not already spoken for match those of FSF/GNU Emacs.

IE:
Meta-% gets Quire-Replace
Ctrl-SPACE sets the mark

Yes, it is easy enough to do myself in the config files but if their not
already used when not try to match FSF/GNU Emacs? Might get more converts
that way.